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Charlie Crerar

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Works in Progress

I am currently working on the following topics:

  • A paper on the relation between virtues and their corresponding character traits
  • A paper on the possibility of group-level deception
  • A paper on the (supposed) virtue of curiosity

If you would like to see drafts of any of the above work, please get in touch.
I am a philosopher based at the University of Leeds.

The main focus of my research is in epistemology. I am interested in how our epistemic practices and capacities affect our lives as social, political, and moral agents, and vice versa. In this connection, I have written on topics including the epistemology of taboo, the nature of intellectual vice, epistemic paternalism, snobbery, and both intellectual and moral virtue. I am also interested in related areas of both ethics and feminist philosophy. 

Much of my teaching is in ethics and epistemology. In the 2021-22 academic year I will be teaching a seminar in theoretical philosophy, and a range of courses across normative, applied, and meta-ethics.

I joined Leeds as a Teaching Fellow for the 2021-22 academic year. Prior to this, I spent three years as an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Connecticut. I earned my PhD in Philosophy from the University of Sheffield in 2018, where I wrote a disseration on the nature and signficance of intellectual vice, supervised by Miranda Fricker and Jules Holroyd. I also have an MPhil in Development Studies (Cambridge, 2014), and a BA in Philosophy (Sheffield, 2013).

Email: c[dot]crerar[at]leeds[dot]ac[dot]uk

Selected Publications


'Hermeneutical Justice for Extremists?', with Trystan S. Goetze
  • Staudigl, Schmid, Tietjen, and Townsend (eds.) Confronting Fanaticism (Routledge), forthcoming
'Must We Love Epistemic Goods?'
  • Philosophical Quarterly, forthcoming
‘Intellectual Snobs'
  • Battaly, Cassam, and Kidd (eds.) Vice Epistemology (Routledge), 2020
‘Epistemic Paternalism and Intellectual Charity’
  • Axtell and Bernal (eds.) Epistemic Paternalism (Palgrave-MacMillan), 2020
‘Motivational Approaches to Intellectual Vice’
  • Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2018
‘Taboo, Hermeneutical Injustice, and Expressively Free Environments’
  • Episteme, 2016

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